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Case studies of arts organizations leveraging technology through new and novel approaches, research updates from AMTLab contributors, and monthly summaries of technological happenings in the arts management world.

Every month, AMT-Lab publishes a collection of
exciting news in the field of arts management and technology. Check out the
links below to find out what moved the arts and technology world in October
2013.

Merry Lynn Morris, a dance professor at the University
of South Florida, invented the Rolling Dance Chair. After 7 years and $150,000
grant money, she presents a device to help kids overcome disabilities that prevent them from freely moving their bodies.

Launched in October 2012,
Artsy is a start up that catalogues art in an online depository and helps users
to discover and purchase art online. Recently Artsy launched its new, free app
for iPhone and iPad touch. It contains over 50,000 high-resolution images of artworks
from more than 600 museums, galleries, art fairs, and foundations.

Emergingtechnologies continuously change the field of arts marketing, including what current
and prospective audiences expect of arts organizations. In this piece, Amelia
Northrup-Simpson discusses four expectations that many patrons have today
regarding mobile technology, social media, online sales, and customer service.

After a three years beta-phase, Fractured Atlas unveiled its online
platform, Artful.ly. Fractured Atlas developed this web-based software system incollaboration with hundreds of performing arts groups nationwide, providing small-
and mid-size arts organizations with an affordable, easy-to-use alternative
that transforms how they sell tickets, raise funds, and grow their audiences.

What
do you do when a piece of digital art worth over a million dollars and reliant
on obsolete technology and old codes breaks down? As contemporary technology
evolves increasingly faster, it shortens the potential lifespan of digital art,
raising the question of how to conserve digital art in the long run. The ZKM
Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe Germany, which houses the world’s largest
collection of digital art, grapples with that question here, led by principal
curator Bernhard Serexhe.

Last summer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York created a new position: Chief Digital Officer. What are the responsibilities in this
position? How do they intersect with other departments of the museum? And why
does the Met actually need a chief digital officer? In this interview with the
NY Times. Sree Sreenivasan, the Met’s first CDO, discusses the responsibilities
of the position, how the role interacts with other museum departments, and the importance of technology for the Met
today.

British sculptor Anish Kapoor and Japanese architect Arata Isozaki
created the world’s first inflatable building in 2011, “Ark Nova.” It has been
in work since 2011 in large areas of Japan’s tsunami devastated Northeastern
coast. Made up of a balloon-like material, the mobile concert hall accommodates
up to 500 people and can easily be packed up and transported to another
location.